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July 18, 2006
The Best Protection Money Can Buy
Courtesy of Linkmeister, here's the latest example of the disgrace that is the Bush Administration and how it is miserably failing to uphold the oath that W swore. Even though he bears the ultimate responsibility for protecting and defending the lives of American citizens, George W. Bush won't evacuate American citizens from war-torn Lebanon unless they pay him to do it.
Americans have been told to wait for a telephone call that could come in hours — or days. They've also been told they can't board a ship unless they've signed a contract agreeing to repay the U.S. government for the price of their evacuation.
Dick Cheney's Halliburton gets billions in no-bid contracts and has fattened itself (and Cheney, for that matter) on the war that Bush started under false pretenses in Iraq... but US citizens have to pay for their own safety. Bush will hand out billions in tax breaks to fat rich businessmen, but when it comes to protecting Americans' lives, well, that has a cost?
It's only fitting from this administration. They came into power in a manner befitting a third world banana republic; why shouldn't we expect them to behave like third world banana dictators? Well, except that this is the United States of America, and we're supposed to deserve better. This administration is a disgrace.
Another element worthy of a dictatorship: after Karl Rove and Dick Cheney leaked an undercover operative's name and identity in an act of political retribution and pique... after people have been arrested in this country for showing up at Bush rallies with anti-Bush t-shirts... the people have finally gotten the message. Under this criminal administration, American citizens now feel that they cannot criticize the Bush government without fear of retribution.
The rules have angered Americans who are already fatigued and nervous after days of explosions. "I'm freaked out that our government is treating us this way," snapped a Rutgers University student who had been studying Arabic at the American University of Beirut. She declined to give her name for fear she would be taken off the passenger list in retribution for criticizing the evacuation effort.
Last time I checked, Americans had the right to criticize anything they wanted without being afraid that someone in the government was watching and might engage in retribution. Only in George W. Bush's Republican America do our own people have to fear that their own government behaves like the Middle Eastern theocrats we make such a show of being more free than.
And the line between supporting Bush and treason grows dimmer every day.
Comments
What's even more frightening is that the bombs being dropped are American made. We have 25,000 Americans in Beirut and the U.S. blocked a cease fire. They cast the lone veto vote in the United Nations, putting 25,000 Americans and many other citizens at risk.
Posted by: PoliticalCritic at July 18, 2006 09:21 AM
ANGRY ANGRY ANGRY ANGRY!
Posted by: Sarah at July 18, 2006 11:50 AM
